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View Poll Results: Why does this thread keep going?

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It's not facebook

1234.29%

My mom taught me if I can't tweet something nice, I shouldn't tweet at all

411.43%

It's still fun to hijack threads

822.86%

It's a good place to feel better about yourself when reading the crap other people are dealing with

And many are multiples. I know it sucks to think of losing the Fringe, but most of the originals are long gone. Maybe a clean sweep and a fresh start is what this place as a whole needs? Dunno, but this 4x4 site hasn't been much about 4x4ing as it has been about pretty, scantily clad women, and fighting over the same political nonsense over and over again. And while I prefer both, maybe smaller, more specific threads will be helpful in both categories.

I did say "or so" , 100000 might be a reasonable limit going forward before splitting a thread. LF has over 460000 posts which is well beyond some of the recommendations I've been finding and it recently reached a point where I had to make a server configuration change just to keep the thread functioning. That's no bueno, so going forward I need to split threads earlier, before they cause similar issues.

The first post in the LF "part 1" thread was 9/24/2005. Part 2 begins 9/23/2015, so there's a decade of history in that first thread. May there be decades more in the parts to follow. There's no reason for this to mean "RIP Lunatic Fringe".

Animated gif thread has over 7000, random pic actually has over 28000. There is no hard number before a thread needs to split. Nobody needs to count posts, if a thread starts risking resource issues it'll be closed and split off into a second (or third, or...) continuation of the thread. Nothing is lost, the discussion doesn't end, it really isn't much different than a new page in a thread. Fwiw locking the LF "part 1" thread due to resource limits was discussed in the news forum at the beginning of the year so this has been on the radar for several months already. "Part 2" begins today.

I did say "or so" , 100000 might be a reasonable limit going forward before splitting a thread. LF has over 460000 posts which is well beyond some of the recommendations I've been finding and it recently reached a point where I had to make a server configuration change just to keep the thread functioning. That's no bueno, so going forward I need to split threads earlier, before they cause similar issues.

The first post in the LF "part 1" thread was 9/24/2005. Part 2 begins 9/23/2015, so there's a decade of history in that first thread. May there be decades more in the parts to follow. There's no reason for this to mean "RIP Lunatic Fringe".

Animated gif thread has over 7000, random pic actually has over 28000. There is no hard number before a thread needs to split. Nobody needs to count posts, if a thread starts risking resource issues it'll be closed and split off into a second (or third, or...) continuation of the thread. Nothing is lost, the discussion doesn't end, it really isn't much different than a new page in a thread. Fwiw locking the LF "part 1" thread due to resource limits was discussed in the news forum at the beginning of the year so this has been on the radar for several months already. "Part 2" begins today.